Sharm el Sheikh or Sharm Al Shaykh. Pop. 35,000. Currency Egyptian pound (EGP). Language Egyptian Arabic. Time Zone GMT + 2 hours. Airport Main Airport Sharm el Sheikh International Airport (SSH). Best Time to go good all year round with hot weather throughout most of the year. Sharm el Sheikh is located on the southern most point of the Sinai Peninsula and is now world famous as a diving centre into the crystal clear waters of the Red Sea. The reefs of Tiran and Ras Mohammed are arguably the best in the world for clear water diving. Ras Mohammed is the name of the southern most point of the Sinai peninsula. At that point, the current of the Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez. This confluence creates vast numbers of plankton and large schools of Barracudas and Sharks can be seen there every day.

A 5 star hotel with 418 rooms. The hotel has fantastic pools too, especially the one with the childrens water park. The beach can be accessed by foot or by the free train and the tourist town of Naam Bay is easy to reach with the free shuttlebus. The hotel grounds are quite extensive, but because of the design it doesn't feel impersonal. The generous areas around the pools accomodate everyone comfortably, even when the hotel is at full capacity.

Sharm el Sheikh (شرم الشيخ, also transliterated as Sharm Al Shaykh), often known simply as "Sharm", is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in Janub Sina', Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai. Sharm el-Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's Southern Sinai province which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai.

Sharm el-Sheikh (شرم الشيخ, also transliterated as Sharm ash Shaykh and popularly known simply as "Sharm") is a well-known port and resort town at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, popular with package holiday makers and divers.

harm El-Sheikh International Airport (Arabic: مطار شرم الشيخ الدولي‎) (IATA: SSH, ICAO: HESH), formerly known as Ophira International Airport, is an international airport located in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Opened on May 14, 1968, the airport was originally an Israeli Air Force base and also served the small settlement of Ofira.

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is an inverted triangle-shaped peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south), forming a land bridge to Southwest Asia. Its area is about 60,000 km². The Egyptians call it the Land of Fayrouz.

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